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Updating the Firmware and Driver

| Important: Updating the firmware can render the device driver and/or management tools incompatible. Before you update the firmware on your controller, please follow these recommendations: 1) Back up your data. 2) Make sure you have a copy of the current firmware image so that you can roll back to it, if necessary. 3) Close all applications.

This section details several ways to update the firmware and driver for the 3ware RAID controller, depending upon operating system.
Before starting the update of either driver or firmware, you will want to make sure you have the latest files. For details, see Downloading the Driver and Firmware.
To update the firmware

| The 3ware CD contains a bootable DOS firmware update program that will work for most PC-based systems. See Updating the Firmware Through DOS Using the 3ware Bootable CD.

You can download the latest version of the CD from:
http://www.lsi.com/channel/ChannelDownloads

| All supported operating systems can update the firmware through 3DM. For details, see Updating the Firmware Through 3DM 2.

| All supported operating systems can update the firmware through CLI. For details, see 3ware SATA+SAS RAID Controller Card CLI Guide, Version 10.0.

To update the driver

| Windows users can update the driver by using the 3ware Device Driver Install Wizard, or by using the Windows Device Manager. For more information, see Updating the 3ware Driver Under Windows.

| Linux users can update the driver at the command line. For details see:

| Updating the 3ware Driver Under Red Hat or Fedora Core

| Updating the 3ware Driver Under SUSE

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